SETA LEARNING PROGRAMMES

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1 SETA Grant Regulations REGULATIONS, POLICIES AND FRAMEWORKS Provides explanations and definitions of bodies / structures referred to in the Acts, legislation and structures IPAD II National Skills Development Strategy III SETA LEARNING PROGRAMMES 7-Steps to Becoming an Artisan Skills Programmes Learnerships Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL ) Skills Development Facilitator Skills Development Committee FRAMEWORKS Occupational Qualifications Framework National Qualifications Framework The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment SETA LEARNING PROGRAMMES 7-STEPS TO BECOMING AN ARTISAN CHIETA Skills Development Committee Toolkit: November

2 7-STEPS TO BECOMING AN ARTISAN CHIETA Skills Development Committee Toolkit: November

3 Step 1: Career Guidance and Management The implementation of an effective career guidance and management system for trade occupations is essential to ensure that persons wishing to become artisans, especially young people, fully understand the possibilities, scope and activities of artisans within industry. A system has been implemented to provide information and market artisan careers amongst South Africans to ensure sufficient entrance of learners into artisan trade occupations. Step 2: General or Vocational or Fundamental Knowledge Learning To ensure effective throughput and success rates within occupational learning, strong fundamental knowledge is required of subjects such as Mathematics, Science, Drawing and the Technical Language used in the technical working environment. This fundamental knowledge will prepare the learners for effective learning and mastering of the three occupational learning components which forms part of artisan trade training, occupational knowledge, practical and workplace training. Step 3: Learner Agreement Registration and Contracting The employer will apply an industry specific selection process prior to entering into an agreement and contract with the learner, as the employer will want to ensure that the learners are fully suited to the industry they want to practise their trade in. Employers are also required to consider national transformation objectives to ensure equity in the workplace as determined by relevant legislation. The learning programme agreement and contract will be a tripartite agreement between the employer, the learner and accredited training provider. A relevant SETA facilitates and registers the agreement and contract for the duration of the artisan learning programme. Step 4: Occupational Knowledge and Practical Learning The learner then commences with the occupational knowledge and practical learning that is specific to the artisan trade. This specific trade occupational knowledge and practical component may be offered by the same or different providers that offered the generic or vocational or fundamental knowledge. This will depend on the accreditation scope of the Skills Development Provider. The specific trade occupational knowledge is contextualized within the learning process to specific tasks required such as fault finding, manufacturing, repair, services etc. The occupational trade knowledge may also have components of mathematics, science, drawing and technical language specific to the trade. CHIETA Skills Development Committee Toolkit: November

4 Step 5: Workplace Learning During the workplace learning process the occupational knowledge and practical learning assimilated during the previous step are applied in the workplace. The artisan learner is exposed to real life situations within the workplace including all aspects of the artisan occupation such as work ethics, safety, responsibilities and quality performance of work required by industry. In all artisan trades this is the most significant and most difficult of the various learning processes and therefore the artisan learner is supported in the workplace by a qualified workplace mentor, previously known as the journeyman. Step 6: Trade Testing and Recognition of Prior Learning All Trade Testing in South Africa will in the near future be regulated by national Trade Test Regulations issued under Section 26D(5) of the Skills Development Act that are applicable to all Trade Test Centres whether they are operated by private, government or state owned companies. These national, decentralized trade test centres must be accredited by the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations before they will be allowed to conduct national trade tests. The national trade test includes practical tasks that a learner must complete within a specified periods of time as determined by the National Artisan Moderation Body or NAMB. The national trade testing system is also being built to include a customized artisan development aligned Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) system that will offer persons who have assimilated knowledge and skills related to an artisan trade through workplace activities to also enter a well-supported process that will result in access to a national trade test. Step 7: Assurance and Certification Assurance and Certification Quality assurance will be built into each and every step of the national 7-Step Programme. It is therefore not an isolated activity focusing on the final external summative assessment or trade testing only, but is implemented right form the qualification development, learner selection, accreditation and delivery processes. NOTE Refer to CHIETA Funding model for Learning Programmes for grant payments CHIETA Skills Development Committee Toolkit: November

5 What is an apprenticeship? An apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading) Apprenticeship also enables practitioners to gain a license to practice in a regulated profession. Most of their training is done while working for an employer who helps the apprentices learn their trade or profession, in exchange for their continued labour for an agreed period after they have achieved measurable competencies. Apprenticeships typically last 3 to 6 years. People who successfully complete an apprenticeship reach the "journeyman" or professional certification level of competence. CHIETA Skills Development Committee Toolkit: November